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The UNH Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarly Activity (RCR) Committee announces the availability of training in the ethical and responsible conduct of research. This training meets the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) RCR training requirement, and is open to any member of the UNH community. While it is primarily directed at...
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The 2017 edition of the International Compilation of Human Research Standards is available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).
According to OHRP, this resource "features listings of over 1,000 laws, regulations, and guidelines on human subject protections in 126 countries, as well as standards issued by a number of international...
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Does the biodiversity of forests matter to the things that humans need, like clean air, clean water and buffering the effects of climate variability?
Would New England’s climate be different if we only had half the number of tree species?
A five-year grant from the National Science Foundation will help researchers from UNH’s Earth Systems Research Center tackle those questions for the first...
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Healthy soil is rich in organic matter, but scientists have yet to fully understand exactly how that organic matter is formed. Now a team of UNH scientists have uncovered evidence that microbial pathways—not plants—are the chief originator of the organic matter found in stable soil carbon pools. The new insight provides promise for designing agricultural systems that promote microbial communities...
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Some of the weather instruments aboard the new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather satellite that was launched on November 19 were developed by researchers at the UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R) will provide National Weather Service forecasters the meteorological...
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